I finished writing these words a week ago not to
debate political views but to show my sorrow over the destruction of the best
outcome of the January 25th revolution. I am mourning the AEM as a respectable
association. As one of the founders, I am mourning the dream that we can build
an association that respects all Egyptians, does not align itself with any
political movement, stays neutral and is built from the revolution for all
Egyptians. An association that respects
its members’ diversity and right of freedom of speech and expression. An association that establishes a rule and
respects it.

A full year of unity and huge effort to build a
dream, followed by a long year of internal disagreement and disrespect
destroying that dream.

Unfortunately, some decided not to respect the
freedom of expression and did whatever they can to orient the association as
per their own political believe;

Because of this unpleasant, unrespectable
atmosphere, I found that working in this environment is not productive, so
based on this and the following I announce my resignation from the board of
advisors, effective immediately.

·In Dec 2012 in the
General Assembly (GA), the association adopted its by-law and elected a board
based on this by-law

·In the same GA, the
association adopted a resolution to have political debates on a monthly bases
or minimum every 6 weeks - never executed.

·In Feb-Mar 2013, two
of the elected members of the board of directors (BoD) resigned, among them the
president.

·Based on the by-law
and following these resignations the BoD lacked quorum (4 elected members,
where minimum is 5) so a GA should be called for a special meeting to elect a
new board and president.

·Instead of that, the
board decided to continue as such and appoint 2 members without any
consideration to the by-law or any consultation with the GA members.

·On a later date, a
third elected member of the BoD resigned so the members became three (3)
elected+ two (2) appointed. As of today,
the members were not informed of the board of directors’ members.

·And instead of
calling for a GA, again the board decided to continue functioning as such,
didn’t call for GA and didn’t organize any political debates in spite of the
continues requests by several members

·Came June 30th
event, the board decided to be part of the political game through an
illegitimate process. In spite that we agreed that no political action to be taken
without a previous discussion.

·Instead of a
political debate they decided to poll the members, and violated the
members’ right by creating a faulty poll that has no legitimacy, as:

ono identification was required

oit allowed for a person to vote multiple times

oit resulted in the admin incorrectly removing
votes manually without any true way of knowing which ones are duplicates

othis means that all individuals in the same
household or company will have their votes removed

·At the end of the poll
thy based their decision on a faulty interpretation of the results by mixing
two systems (vote and poll) where they calculated wrongly,

oThey decided to ignore
an option included in the poll by them and consider the majority as the higher
number and neglect that the mandate is to be reached by more than 50%.

As the board of advisors (BoA) refused to stop
this mismanagement and to correct the violation of the members’ rights and the
by-law, I found myself in front of a moral decision not to participate anymore
in this circus called an association. Therefore, I announce my resignation from
the board of advisors to be able to continue fighting for the human right and
for the new Egypt. I remain committed to
serve these causes in all fields, without associating myself with those that do
not respect people’s rights.

Mohamed Kamel*,

Founder and ex-member of AEM board of advisors

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional
engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional,
he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder of the
Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in
Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Association of the Egyptians of Montreal (AEM),
Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la
Guerre”, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president and
co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), member of the board of trustee
in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal
Muslims (CCMM) . He could be reached at public@mohamedkamel.comand followed at @mskamel

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*Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional (PMP), he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder, ex-Secretary General of The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC), a co-founder of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD), Egyptian Worldwide for Democracy and Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF-FCM), member of the board of trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Cultural Center for Montreal Muslims (CCMM). He could be reached at public@mohamedkamel.com and followed at @mskamel